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Article: Off the Beaten Mountain Path;In California's Trinity Alps, Solo Hiking Is Still the Norm
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 26, 1989
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I am standing in a grove of Jeffrey pines interspersed with
granite boulders. A black-tailed deer is nibbling at a willow branch
beside a nearby creek. Strapping on my backpack, I gaze eagerly at
the trail head, which I have reached after a four-hour drive from San
Francisco. I am looking forward to the high point of the hike, from
which I expect to see the western slopes of Mount Shasta and Lassen
Peak, the southernmost peaks in the Cascade Range.
My hike is taking me into California's Trinity Alps, a
half-million acres of wilderness and additional public land located
inside the triangle formed by the Northern California towns of
Redding, Yreka and Eureka (and west of those ...
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